today's news in the week's top stories in our t.v. u.s. lays into israel over plans to build three thousand more settler homes immediately after the palestinians u.n. status was upgraded. egypt is divided as tens of thousands rallied to both support and oppose president morsi with a referendum on a controversial new constitution is set for two weeks time. and the world's top whistle blower promises more sensational revelations next year we talked to during the sonship in the exclusive interview.

you're watching r.t. live from moscow the u.s. is trying to steer israel and the palestinians back to the negotiating table but so far to no avail washington has criticised israel's approval of three thousand more sessile homes in disputed territories the move came immediately after the un voted to upgrade palestine to observer state status despite america's opposition artie's paul asli and now looks at how the vote affects the situation in the middle east. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state as to a nonmember observer state in the u.n. one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against look at it forty one abstentions it's an important political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in a practical way on its violations the national law violations of the rights of the

palestinian people especially on the expansion of illegal settlements palestinians can now apply to join the international criminal court and other global organizing . giving them better bargaining chips in dealing with israel but it came at a price within hours tel aviv announced to peace building three thousand more homes in the west bank a sure sign that the situation on the ground won't change overnight does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even you know a step. further let's really believe the international community gives to this violation the us was also quick to cost account of the palestinian party the unfortunate and counterproductive resolution at the united nations general assembly that just passed today's grand pronouncements will soon fade and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has

changed but washington's unflinching support for tel aviv has situated it from some of its a longtime allies in the un more and more countries are turning their back on decades of negotiations that have led nowhere what has changed has been the continual failure of the us controlled so-called peace process to lead to any kind of end to occupation and what i think was the catalyst here is that political pressure on other matters and on the palestinian authority from their own population from their own people who were saying you know what we've had twenty one years of failed diplomacy we're not looking for twenty two we want something different and that's something means a real shift in policy first and foremost the consensus on the international stage is that israel needs to stop building settlements deemed illegal by the un certain to be international community you know is a horse. a provocation which heroes of course i go to

so-called state sort of it was a little more than a year ago that palestinian president. mahmoud abbas came to the un in a bid for statehood since then tel aviv and washington's approach to the middle east conflict has gained them an ever shrinking minority of supporters the irony is that the bid was passed on the watches of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rightwing foreign minister avigdor lieberman it was last year that lieberman boasted in the united nations that the moral majority of western states was with israel it now turns out he was wrong and whether israel wants it or not it's increasingly clear that something needs to give the r.t. tel aviv. egypt's you prison court has postponed ruling on the legitimacy of the panel that drafted the country's new constitution after several thousand supporters of president morsi prevented the judges from entering the building morsi has set

the date for a referendum on the charter fatigue a week's time and made harsh criticism from opponents who claim the draft undermines basic democratic freedoms artie's tom barton reports from cairo. unrest returns to the streets after the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak after the election that brought in mohamed morsi egypt is in turmoil once again these round the clock protests have been going on for over a week now it resembles early two thousand and eleven when hosni mubarak was removed from power but that was nearly two years ago shouldn't the revolution have ended by now the mood on top risk where became defiant again after last week's to creep president morsi meaning his decisions would face new legal challenge we had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant the dictator. in in order to that we made elections and rid of illusion and with elections to choose someone to the present us it turned out that this guy is also

a tyrant himself however morsi claims his new powers are only temporary you know any of that he became too in the world here. he will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full emergency it did pull the seams same thing sift usable on the president that were bought and we stayed under emergency law for seventy years opponents say egypt's new constitution is too islamist to set the country on the road to religious dictatorship but some sections of society are keen to show their support for morsi and their scorn for judges who would block the constitution and i'm here to support the president morsi from so bush and buy a ticket for his opposition from the constitutional court. or. the most noise that says it is the most it is that you got elected by the bugle when it was that they fired for his failure the rifts in society are undeniable and perhaps more even than or for a tarion ism the fear is that chaos will tear apart any games made by the

revolution this is something new in egypt that's why it's it's more sedate coming in a way where you find that people are facing each other in the streets in the ministrations and facing that type of violence from islamic groups egypt's president its government its courts its very constitution are now matters of heated debate one of the few things most egyptians do seem to agree on after the long night of mubarak a new day is proving elusive tom bottom party. while president morsi has called on all egyptians to take part in the referendum and said the constitution is going in the right direction but with the country sinking to new lows of poverty egypt needs more radical changes says the u.k. based journalist and writer neil clark. i think more she's made a big mistake he you know he may have thought that basically people were bricks gone and therefore he had

a bit of leeway but no the underlying problems that corruption that approached with the policies of mubarak out you know that people want to clean great with these policies they wanted radical change not cosmetic change not really a change of leader at the top carrying on with the same economic policies the same social policies etc they wanted a real radical change they're not getting that and so it's really at a crucial stage now where he's got to listen to the people egypt has occurred before that had a lot of temporary however they got down the years way governments have said that it was an attempt to base of these ended up last in a very really long time of the mubarak prince and so i think there is that sort of fear among egyptians that what they're getting is a new pharaoh as i said they want they wanted more democracy back in twenty eleven but they also want to fundamental economic changes which haven't come about because there are widespread concerns of the public about what morsi has done the last few days that's not what the people in the hundreds of thousands took to the streets for twenty electoral votes have a new dictator but the underlying cause i think are economic factors and the fact is people voted for morsi because they thought he'd bring changes it but the

economy has got worse one in four young egyptians are out of work poverty is on the right so i think there is this one issue this constitutional crisis at the moment but beyond that there are deep issues in egypt you have to be addressed. now the world's most notorious whistleblower songes promising a new sensational explosion next year equal to the release of thousands of secret american diplomatic cables two years ago in an exclusive interview with r.t. wiki leaks and primo also claims the us is becoming a totalitarian state with the help of social media. the problem is that all the time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded every web search to know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago and you don't know but google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts the request if it flowed over u.s. border it knows there will be any. national security agency whistleblower who was

the research head of the national security agency's signals intelligence division describes this as turning key totalitarianism that all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism it's just a matter of turning the key and actually the case has already been turned a little bit and it is now affecting people who are targeted for us drone strikes organizations like wiki leaks. national security reporters who are having their sources investigated is already partly turned and you know the question is would will go all the way. and on a more personal note a son is dismissed reports his health is deteriorating now you can see more from the world's top whistleblower in the full interview at any time you like on our website our take dot com. coming up shortly ballot box drama in

kuwait the opposition boycotts parliamentary polls saying they are unconstitutional claiming the new government lacks political popular digits in the sea. and a dumb day for the british media leveson publishes his damning report and calls for ties of press regulation in the u.k. all the latest details official right. waves of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got a nice satellite project a real estate scandal has also led to the defense minister being fired note i said fired in russia we hear a lot about corruption scandals and the reaction is usually a firing or a forced resignation and maybe that would be ok another country but russia has big

dreams in a big country that has big corruption spoiling all of those dreams a country can't survive when every infrastructural or scientific project is sucked dry from within whether the government is unwilling or unable to sternly punish these offenders is a huge topic by could tell you that if there's no real fear of punishment this will just keep going on for ever perhaps it's time to put a big asterisk for high level corruption next to the moratorium on the death penalty but that's just my opinion.

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a piece of art. is exempt. from three. bombs. on our team. mission free credit patient free in-store charges free. arrangement free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video dog r t v dot com. welcome back the legitimacy of the new the elected parliament is being called into question the shiite minority grabbed the biggest tally of seats but the opposition boycotted the ballots over the ruling on a case decision to amend voting rules to see cuffing off as this report. polls are

closed doors in but the battle over kuwait's political future has only just begun as expected the new parliament is largely consisting of folks who are considered to be closely allied with the ruling power but that is because the opposition didn't front any candidates in a boycott of the vote they've even questioned the outcome before the last ballot was cast voter turnout varied widely from polling place to polling place but with a very low numbers at some locations the legitimacy of the results are certainly bound to be questioned now the crisis was sparked after the islamist dominated parliament it was dismissed over a row with the ruling power of the situation was then brought to a boiling point after the emir issued a surprise decree changing the country's complicated voting laws critics allege that it was a move in order to force a more compliant parliament which had sparked massive street battles as well now the political rift is only likely to deepen the question is whether the opposition

is now going to take their fight to the streets and what of the monarchy will respond with a heavy hand course what happens here has implications far beyond kuwait's borders as an opec member any sort of unrest is bound to affect oil markets the country is also a hub for the pentagon's ground forces with thousands of combat troops stationed here as a military counterweight to iran now the gulf monarchies have been struggling to fend off possible instability from the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of the countries in this region but the worry is of course that the trend could be reversed recent months have seen as fleeting clashes between a position groups and security forces who have used tear gas stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse crowds political gatherings of more than twenty people have been banned and activists are complaining of a clampdown against the center authorities and did allow thousands of protesters to gather for

a peaceful rally on friday but the worry is. is that the next few weeks are bound to test the limits of the government's tolerance as well as the self-control displayed by the opposition what happens here in kuwait could very well write the next chapter of the arab spring to seek out from the r.t.e. kuwait's. meanwhile britain's coalition government is divided following the leveson report into press standards you can use papers were accused of wreaking havoc on the lives of innocent people with the report calling for illegally regulator which critics fear could turn on press freedom artie's polyploid has the story. revelations that the british press and gauged in phone hacking sparked a wave of public revulsion and kicked off one of the biggest media scandals the u.k. has seen in years at times that threaten to engulf not just fleet street. but downing street as well as the allegations went all the way to the heart the british

government to douse the flames number ten ordered the creation of the leveson inquiry in order to investigate the claims and now two years in the making after a chorus line of celebrity witnesses and millions in taxpayers' money the leveson report damning about the press and heavily critical of both the police and the government for what it says was their cozy relationship with the media cameron has been shown with jeremy hunt to have been actually batting for the murdoch empire was part of all of this so you know i think you know there needs to be a bit more of a focus on the five years of the police to actually do anything about these criminal acts lord leveson his recommendation is behind standards of self-regulation by the press in forced by legislation and that's what critics fear could stifle the already declining newspaper industry and deal a huge blow to the freedom of the press in the u.k. is that any way in which you can be a little bit censored or

a little bit monitored. and most people say no with britain now in the midst of a post leveson going over it's the country's two top politicians who are likely to be the most embarrassed david cameron might be suffering from some uncomfortable flashbacks back in october the prime minister promised to support the leveson recommendations as long as they went bonkers and cut to last week i have some serious concerns and misgivings on this recommendation they break down into issues of principle practicality but david cameron's change of heart regarding the inquiries findings would be causing him half the headache that nick clegg might be nursing at the moment the liberal democrat deputy prime minister used to talk about liberal democracy a labor previous will be will be remembered as the government who took your freedoms away we want to be remembered as the ones who gave them but not anymore

here he is off the leveson published their report i have always said that i would support lord justice leveson reforms providing they are proportionate and workable and i will come on to why i believe that is the case as far as the report's corporate core proposal is concerned namely a tougher system of so for a glacial supported by new independent checks recognised in law recent polls suggest that over two thirds of britons have little or no faith in the newspaper industry anymore and with revelations about the strong links between the police the politicians and the media it's not only trust in fleet street that when dealing. with the word you know obviously we are being very worried about murdoch and his press sometimes i think it's always going on between should keep an eye on it and be aware of it. with opinions raging for and against new legislation it's turning into a no win situation for those in power by questioning the results of the inquiry day

. david cameron looked to his critics like he abandoned the victims of media intrusion for some good press which is what got the government in trouble in the first place. r t london. and we found more stories on our website including flying in to trouble with us washington pushes its drone program over the us a spate of crashes in the images has civilian authorities questioning their safety and out more at r.t. dot com post also online and amateurish hoax news agencies are left red in the face after publishing a scientifically flawed diagram they claimed was proof of iran's nuclear bomb ambitions which critics say could have been produced by any nuclear science student . let's take a look at some other news making headlines this hour taliban suicide bombers have attacked a u.s. military base in the city of jalalabad in eastern afghanistan intelligence officer

will say there were as many as eight militants involved in the explosions went off outside the gate and a gun battle ensued nato says at least five afghans were killed and several alliance troops. in japan reports say seven people are missing after a tunnel collapsed trapping an unknown number of vehicles inside people say police a story they found several bodies in one of the cars the accident on the highway west of tokyo caused a fire with plumes of smoke seen exiting the four kilometer long tunnel the road remains closed while the course of the incident is being investigated. north korea says it will try to launch a long range rocket later this month after a previous attempt failed the move will likely further strain relations with washington and neighboring south korea the u.s. has previously suspended food aid to the state after pyongyang went ahead with a rocket test in april so has meanwhile nearly tripled its own bill. missile range

after a recent deal with the us. likely some footage has apparently showing syrian rebels killing ten prisoners as they paid for their lines we have to warn you of the very graphic content of the images you are back to see one of the gunmen is head referencing the al qaida linked al nusra front responsible for several suicide attacks in the country internet and phone access in the country has been restored after a nationwide communications blackout lasting more than two days and while the opposition why do you blame the assad government for the information blockade use analysts patrick henson says it primarily benefits it that he's backing the rebel militia it's. become a massive problem again with syrian we've had this problem from the beginning which is the skewing of information coming out of the country the syrian observatory for human rights was responsible for a lot of the usual bogus claims that allowed the west to sort of justify the

backing of the for you syrian army terrorist groups leaders of our western countries particularly nato countries or encouraging the syrian terrorist rebels guerrillas whatever you want to call them to really accelerate the bloodbath in that country because in the eyes of washington and london the bigger the blood out the flickr they're going to have reaching just a report just came out this week with a supplying satellite units to rebels rebel groups terrorist groups essentially in syria so big can communicate while the internet is down to their country there was an image initially sold in the media in places like the washington post there's a move by the assad government possibly to shut down rebel communications but actually upon further investigation it looks like it's possible that actually the combination of the united states offer troops and the syrian rebels could actually be behind the bringing down the internet and the reason is is because if the blood

escalates from that country the last thing that the west wants is any reports coming out on the internet of actual rebel terrorist atrocities in that country atrocities that we've seen quite a bit of recently. after a short break we will continue our look at the occupy movement in the u.s. past three in four of our american autumn special coming your way shortly. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the suckling island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely

restricted to visit is now this picture rest place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. he has been exploring the deaths of the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the cycling region to enjoy the sights others convert the islands nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost unnecessary attribute of anything in

russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . and to a large extent this is old to do what succulent offers environmentally the tonight show operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can all for a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture.

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